Beware - VE7NVI - Canada

[kc9aod]

Ive spent the past three months trying to get my 'part of the deal' from this person. Now no contact via email. If anyone has dealt with John Pringle (VE7NVI) from Canada, beware! I lost an Icom 451A to him. 73's...

[AF4K]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (kc9aod @ May 26 2002,01:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ive spent the past three months trying to get my 'part of the deal' from this person. Now no contact via email. If anyone has dealt with John Pringle (VE7NVI) from Canada, beware! I lost an Icom 451A to him. 73's...[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Seems Mr. John / Chris Pringle is at it again.
Keep putting the word out!

You wrote:

Ive spent the past three months trying to get my 'part of the deal' from this person. Now no contact via email. If anyone has dealt with John Pringle (VE7NVI) from Canada, beware! I lost an Icom 451A to him. 73's...


Someone at the Canadian Licensing Authority needs toi do something about this crook. They keep giving him new callsigns!

He was using VE7RCP or something like that. and ALSO had VE8AA back in 1998 or so when he took me for $100.00 for a KW-2000E transceiver. I contacted the R.C.M.P. up there in B.C. and they visited him twice.
He promised to pay me back, but then sent me a check for $100 canadian after I paid him $100 U.S. The check bounced THREE MONTHS later (which can easily happen with a Canadian bank!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

By the way, his name LAST time was Chris Pringle instead of John, and he used P.O. Box 108 at some town. I have the info here somewhere... and he made his 'kill' via n ad he placed on Usenet newsgroups. Where did you find his AD this time?

We need to get them to catch and stop this swine before something really bad happens to him. I had hams up in 7 land offering to nab him when he came over the border.

[ve7gun]

Christopher John Pringle I think still lives in Crofton BC on Vancouver Island he lived in Port Alberni when he ripped me of as well as some Hams there ,he moved to Crofton , still here on vancouver island near Duncan the RCMP there know him, there is a file there ,he has being ripping people off since 1991 and before, his calls are ve7nvi and ve7jz used to be ve7aic, ve8aa , and i think ve7rpl not sure of last one .I know industry canada know his reputation. will try to contact them to make sure of his home ad. will publish info here when I get it I wish I could do more, scum like him should be removed from the gene pool. maybe I have been a grandfather to long but this is getting to me I spend many hrs emailing to folks to get wants and for sales together on different swap nets I like helping people out I don`t want, nore expect anything in return . I have many thank you`s that is payment enough hope everyone has not fallen asleep with this 73 Larry ve7gun/kb7gun/va1gun ve7gun@rac.ca ( addition,,,, he lives somewhere near Williams Lake now I think , uses different names and addresses some near Vancouver bc Dec 21/04 )

[wb7ejs]

Well, it seems that both you and I have purchased the same 451A! #I have been trying for the last 3 months to &quot;recieve&quot; my radio, and up until a month ago receiving email that it must be the border tightening down on parcels.

My request for info have gone unanswered for the last month. #I am out $180--just enough to be insulting.

Based upon the info here, I understand that this guy is a fraud. #Maybe I should take a trip to Surrey and knock on his door!

What a punk--

Brad WB7EJS

[wb7ejs]

The address I used for the guy was:

VE7NVI
John Pringle
13254 - 112 B Avenue
Surrey BC
Canada
V3R 2H5

At least, that's where I sent my hard earned cash for the IC451A--

Brad WB7EJS

[KB6HTJ]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (wb7ejs @ June 10 2002,21:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The address I used for the guy was:

VE7NVI
John Pringle
13254 - 112 B Avenue
Surrey BC
Canada
V3R 2H5

At least, that's where I sent my hard earned cash for the IC451A--

Brad WB7EJS[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I am another victim of John Pringle's fraudulent acivities. He is even still running and ad posted Feb. 20 2002, 16:46 &quot; Have a Hull 255 HF SSB Marine ........&quot; what suppesed to be mine as a trade in for Tigertronics TNC and 2 meter FM base radio what was shipped to him in Canada. He did NOT ship the Hull radio as he suppose to.
Someone should take care of this individual and stop him from placing here his ads and collecting &quot;free equipment&quot; as a result of his fraud.

Thanks for reading,

Edward - KB6HTJ

[W9RSM]

I too have been a victim of Pringle's fraudulent activities. Pringle placed an advertisement on the QRZ url for an hf radio. Pringle's adv. included digital photos including the serial number of what appeared to be a &quot;mint&quot; condx. radio, reputing the radio as working &quot;FB&quot;.
Aprox. six weeks after sending an International Money Order and extensive e-mail correspondence which included numerous nonsensical excuses for delay I received an hf radio made by the same Mfg. but with a different serial number and in poor physical and electronic condx.; Too make matters worse, he included power cables for a different brand radio which &quot;toasted&quot; the radio when hooked up to power source; Furthermore, sloppiest packing job I have ever seen.
This man is a fraud and a disgrace to mankind and amateur radio.
Do not do business with this reprobate.
Bob W9RSM

[va3mjw]

Hi Guys....
I don't know this John Pringle Guy....but I hope his exploits don't make the rest of us Canucks look bad.....there seems to be weasels all over the world , and unfortunately , our PC's are not equipted with WEASEL ALERT software....I hope you nail this CREEP!!!.....He does not represent the good hams in CANADA!!!.......Mike va3mjw

[kc2jyt]

Do we really have the time to do background checks on these people?

Give your local shops the business....shoot...especially if they've been around for years....sometimes we have to travel a bit to get to them...but at least we knowthey are there!!!

plus...get into a club....a little more monitoring of themselves and least likely to burn you...or eachother.

BUY NEW ONLINE if you have to....I've had great results that way...take a little longer top save up, and usually if it sounds too good to be true....

Need I really complete that statement?


Regards to all...

Dan

[tbrad03]

wow
all these people ripped by the same person.
i can see where everybody has the right to be mad.
and even get madder when nothing can be done about it.
but to go as far as to say kill him for the right kind of money?
thats going a little far with it, dont you think?
i mean, kill someone over some electronic equipment.. well in that case, kill someone over anything.
is this how HAM ops are?
if so, perhaps i dont really want to be a HAM op after all.

Terry

[N5OZQ]

I have NO COMMENT abt K8CPA's perspective, other than to say it's the first time I've seen a five-digit number in the Lookup Counter here . . . ;-)
73,
Tom, N5OZQ

[ab0re]

FYI - this is the same guy as VE7JZ. The guy needs two names and two callsigns as he's such a fraud. Email me if you need additional details for how he ripped me off.

73,
Dan / ab0re